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Europe continues to phase out substances harmful to the ozone layer under the Montreal Protocol

News Published 14 Sep 2018 Last modified 10 Dec 2019

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Overall efforts to reduce the use of chemicals harming the ozone layer across the European Union continued in 2017 and the EU has already achieved its goals on the phase-out of ozone-depleting substances under the Montreal Protocol, according to the latest data released today by the European Environment Agency (EEA).